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‘The Greens have built walls high enough to shut out dozens of their own members whose only crime was to hold gender-critical views’ | Julie Bindel
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The Green Party’s war on women

Does Queen Caroline know what a woman is? (Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/Getty)

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Is Sam Altman a Steve Jobs-level genius or just a smart guy who got lucky? If the AI bubble bursts, we’ll soon know | Gavin Haynes

Will Sam Altman’s chipmaking gamble implode?

Is Sam Altman a Steve Jobs-level genius? Or is he just a smart guy who struck it lucky and is now about to go shopping with the global capital markets’ credit cards? His company OpenAI has this year…

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Prominent Tory politicians throughout the conference have tried to reposition the party as the only centre-right economic force in Britain. And that is how they plan to take on Reform — by calling their rivals Left-wing | Max Mitchell

‘Farage is socialist’ becomes new Tory attack line

Prominent Tory politicians throughout this week’s conference have tried to reposition their party as the only centre-right economic force in Britain. And that is how they plan to take on Reform: by…

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‘Christianity in this charged moment is no longer an intricate constellation of disputed beliefs but something easier to grasp: an identity’ | Michael Ledger-Lomas

Christian nationalism’s godless heart

To be Christian is to commit oneself to values — the family, the nation the West — that are under threat. Credit: Matej Divizna / Getty Images

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'Just as Trump is making headlines with deportations, he is opening the back door for yet more poverty-wage labour on America’s farms' | Dustin Guastella

Trump’s new farm rule betrays American workers

Last week, the Trump administration pushed through a rule change that went largely unnoticed by the mainstream press. Under the new rules, H-2A workers — the only uncapped guest worker programme in…

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‘People incapable of defending their arguments at the pub were able to broadcast their ignorance without justification or debate’ | Poppy Sowerby

How posers conquered politics

‘Given a platform, political posers thrived.’ Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto/Getty Images

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When a dying Lord Nelson asked Captain Hardy to kiss him, little did he know that two centuries later he'd be written into LGBT history | Philip Hensher

‘Queer history’ doesn’t need Lord Nelson

There is a venerable journalistic principle that any question posed in a headline can be answered with the word “no”. For instance, “can drinking salt water add 10 years to your life?” In the same…

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‘Does Stephen Fry or Paloma Faith really care enough about the outcome to publicly stab somebody in the back?’ | Tom Chivers

Lies, damned lies, and Claudia Winkleman

‘What’s fascinating about the show is that you get to see something very rare.’ The Traitors / BBC

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‘Nor does the Thatcherite policy mix do much to quell the populist backlash fermenting outside the dynamic metropolitan citadels’ | Jonny Ball

The march of the undead Tories

A Thatcher-themed séance won’t save the Tories. Photo: Ian Forsyth/Getty.

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The EU’s new 50% steel tariffs won’t just hit China.

They could finish off what’s left of Britain’s industry, warns Chris Bayliss 👇

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Bluesky tried to be the antidote to X.

Now it’s fighting the same culture wars it was built to escape, writes Katherine Dee 👇

Bluesky civil war shows free speech is harder than it looks

Last week, a joke familiar from X circulated on rival platform Bluesky: “(bluesky user bursts into Waffle House) OH SO YOU HATE PANCAKES??” It was obviously a jab at the moral intensity that now…

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'Examining one’s sexual attractions is not the same as deciding whether or not to alter one’s body or identity' | Lisa Selin Davis

Supreme Court should stand up for free speech on conversion therapy

Today, the United States Supreme Court is hearing Chiles v. Salazar, known colloquially as the “conversion therapy case”. This case tests the limits of state authority over therapy — what can be…

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‘Reform may be feeding off the anger poor communities like those in South Wales are feeling today, but they didn’t cause it’ | Brad Evans
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Nationalism has claimed the Valleys

‘Miners from South Wales made up the largest contingent of volunteers from Britain in the fight against the fascists during the Spanish Civil War.’ Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty.

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‘Thomas Pynchon passes out shadow tickets left and right, just as God does, because that’s how life goes' | William T. Vollmann
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Thomas Pynchon's world of shadows

‘Prohibition still in hypocritical force and Al Capone’s heirs blowing up the competition.’ Photo: George Rinhart/Getty.

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The Tory Party is taking inspiration from Trump on immigration following meetings between senior Conservatives and JD Vance, Chris Philp said today | Max Mitchell

Chris Philp: Tories are looking to Trump for deportations plan

The Conservative Party is taking inspiration from the Trump administration in crafting its immigration proposals, according to Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp. Speaking at a fringe event at the…

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'There is a populist current that will outlive him' | Richard Hanania

The post-Trump GOP will be even crazier

Trump is more reasonable than his base. Credit: Getty

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'Far from seeking to broaden the Green Party’s appeal, Polanski is moving aggressively to consolidate the most Left-wing portion of the electorate' | Peter Franklin

Zack Polanski is outflanking Corbyn on the British Left

It isn’t the most fitting of metaphors, but Zack Polanski may have just shot Jeremy Corbyn’s fox. While “Your Party” is yet to decide on its name, its leader and its policies, the Greens have been…

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‘I don’t care what the culture mavens say: Jilly Cooper and Taylor Swift are, in their respective genres, storytelling greats’ | Mary Harrington
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What Taylor Swift owes Jilly Cooper

Swift has more in common with Cooper than one might imagine. Graphic incorporating images by Tony Evans / Timelapse Library Ltd / Getty Images; and Arthur Sidey / Mirrorpix / Getty Images.

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‘It’s odd sitting in a mansion listening to people shout for Intifada outside, while inside they pretend they cannot hear’ | Tanya Gold

History has caught up with British Jews

‘I hope for solidarity. I expect silence.’ Rob Stothard/Getty Images.

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By aligning with an extremist like Tommy Robinson, Israel risks undoing years of bridge-building with the diaspora | Limor Simhony Philpott

Israel’s Tommy Robinson invitation is a strategic misstep

By inviting Tommy Robinson to Israel, the country’s Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli has not only shown poor judgement but made a deeper strategic miscalculation. The optics are startling: a…

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The Brics alliance heralds ‘the end of the American imperium’, according to the French historian Emmanuel Todd | UnHerd unherd.com/newsroom/emm...

Emmanuel Todd: US has accepted defeat against China

America has “given up” on defeating China, according to the French historian Emmanuel Todd. Speaking late last month to the new-media outlet Fréquence Populaire Média, Todd claimed the United States…

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English policing increasingly resembles the managing of community tensions in Northern Ireland | Henry Hill

Will Labour’s police reforms fall into the two-tier trap?

The UK Government’s decision to give the police new powers to relocate serial protests is a welcome development, albeit one that is long overdue. Under new plans announced by Home Secretary Shabana…

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'Repentance, memory and tragedy: all are intertwined now, and the silence over this city is pregnant with foreboding' | David Patrikarakos
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Will extremists wreck the Gaza deal?

Trump promises no more October 7ths. Credit : Jalaa Marey / Getty Images

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Should Emmanuel Macron resign to save France? | François Valentin

French PM’s resignation has brought crisis to Macron’s door

The night of 5 October 2025 will be remembered by French politicos for years to come. It was a hectic few hours which ultimately led to the resignation of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu less than a…

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‘Gretchen Felker-Martin is the free speech martyr that the Left of the last decade deserves: unpleasant, unsympathetic and almost impossible to defend’ | Sarah Ditum
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The Left's ugly free-speech fetish

Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto /Getty Images

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